The personal blog of SkyeWriter30. Come for the snark, stay for the... depression? Writing. Yeah, that's more appealing.
And then work ate my life.
The title says it all, really. It's been two weeks since I last posted because I've been really busy with work and so on. The first day wasn't as bad as I thought it would be; everyone was right that it was going to be fine. In fact I nearly got through two weeks at the job before the temp agency called me.
They wanted to switch me to a different job at the same place, in a different shift (second instead of first). I thought at first they were asking me, but it turns out they were really telling me. So I started that new job on Friday and had to do a shift of overtime on Saturday. It's all right, but what I'm really lamenting is the total loss of my social life.
The second shift is from 2pm to 10pm, which means no going anywhere ever again basically. I can't visit my brother on the weekends like I'd been plotting to, for example. I also can't go to see Garth Nix in Nashville next month like I REALLY, REALLY wanted to do. I'm hoping I can convince my brother to go without me and get me a signed copy of Nix's new book (new Old Kingdom book, I AM VERY EXCITED), but I don't know how likely that is to happen.
Another thing work has kind of killed is all my inspiration to write. I've been sort of brainlessly working on a knit blanket for my younger niece (for Christmas), because my brain just doesn't want to go into writespace anymore. I need to take a look at prompts from all my writing comms and see if I can't come up with something. My wordcount for the month has really suffered, even if I have passed my lowball goal of 1k. I don't know how I'm going to get NaNo to happen (I'll make it happen, like I have for many other years).
So I guess that's what's been up with me. I'll try to post more often this week; I've got mornings free, so as long as I get up early enough, I'll have plenty of time to blog and do other things.



